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Sigma Chi 1 squeaks out win Team holds on to early lead to defeat The Architects
BY SCOTT TOLAND
Several teams are looking strong as intramural basketball pool play continues at the Student Recreation and Fitness Center.
There have been many blowouts in pool play so far but also several close games.
One thriller of a game in the men's division featured Sigma Chi I against The Architects.
Led by good shooting and several assists, Sigma Chi 1 jumped out to an early lead and took a 22-15 advantage into the break. The fraternity came out strong in the second half, and went up 28-19, gaining its largest lead of the contest.
The Architects, thanks to several key plays by Dustin Tregnoag, Mobery, Mo, junior, cut the lead to four with 1.29 left on the clock.
After getting a defensive stop, The Architects pushed the ball up the floor and gave it to Tregnago, who hit a three-pointer to pull his team to within one point. With all the momentum on its side, The Architects forced a turnover with 36.7 seconds remaining. Tristan Comrad, Andover freshman attempted a go-ahead three from the top of the circle and left it a bit short. Sigma Chi 1 pulled down the rebound and was toled with 17.7
Sigma Chi 1 missed the front end of one one-and-one, giving The Architects one last chance to win the game. After working some time off the clock, N tragogn took the ball and drove into the lane. He put up a shot just before the buzzer sounded. It barely rimmed out, which gave Sigma Chi 1 a hard-fought 40-39 victory.
"We're 2-0 and we have a pretty good chance of doing well in the tournament," Benjamin Voran, Leawood sophomore guard for Sigma Chi 1, said.
Voran led Sigma Chi 1 with 11 points, while Tregnago posted 16 points and three rebounds for The Architects.
"We were both really even teams." Trengao said. "We've got some good shooters, we're 1-1, and anything can happen in the tournament."
League play continues through next week before the leagues are split into separate divisions for tournament play. Tournament play begins during the week of February 26.
Kansan sportswriter Scott Toland can be contacted at stoland@kansan.com.
— Edited by Ryan Schneider
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Gavin Snider of The Architects, shoots a jumper during an intramural game on Monday.
>> SUPER BOWL XVI
Snickers commercial draws criticism Ad pulled after complaints from gay, lesbian community
ASSOCIATED PRESS
HACKETTSTOWN, N.J. — A commercial for Snickers candy bars launched in the Super Bowl broadcast was benched after its maker made complaints that it was homophobic.
The ad showed two auto mechanics accidently kissing while eating the same candy bar and then ripping out some chest hair to do something "many." One of the alternate endings on the Snickers Web site showed the men attacking each other.
The Human Rights Campaign and the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Delamination complained to the maker of Snickers, Hackett-stown-based Masterfoods USA, a division of Mars Inc., which also makes M&M's and other candies.
The Web site also featured video of players from the Super Bowl teams reacting to the kiss.
"This type of jeering from professional sports figures at the sight of two men kissing fuels the kind of anti gay bullying that haunts countless gay and lesbian school children on playgrounds all across the country," Human Rights Campaign president Joe Solmonese said in a statement.
GLAAD spokesman Marc McCarthy said Tuesday the group believed "this kind of prejudice was inexcusable."
Masterfoods spokeswoman Alice Nathanson issued a statement in which she said the company would stop running the ad on television and the Web site.
"As with all of our Snickers advertising, our goal was to capture the attention of our core Snickers consumer." Nathanson wrote.
"Feedback from our target consumers has been positive. In addition, many media and website commentators of this year's Super Bowl commercial line-up ranked the commercial among this year's top ten best. USA Today ranked it No. 9 of its top ten picks," she continued.
"We know that humor is highly subjective and understand that some people may have found the ad offensive. Clearly that was not our intent," she wrote.
Masterfoods brands include Uncle Ben's rice, Pedigree dog food and Whiskas cat food. It is part of Mars Inc., a family-owned company.
MEDIA LEGISLATION
Lawmakers challenge NFL policy
BY DAVID A. LIEB ASSOCIATED PRESS
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Two Missouri lawmakers are challenging a National Football League policy prohibiting local television stations from covering games on the sidelines.
Legislation filed Tuesday would force the NFL to allow local TV cameras on the sidelines of games hosted by the Kansas City Chiefs and St. Louis Rams, both of whom play in publicly subsidized stadiums. Media denied reasonable sideline access could sue for damages.
Local TV media long had been allowed to roam the sidelines until the NFL booted most of them under a policy enacted before the start of the 2006-07 season. Now, TV stations must get sideline game video from a pool photographer or use the network television footage, which is
provided for free.
Kansas City area Sens, Matt Barrie and Victor Callahan complained Tuesday that the policy also hurts the fans, who like to follow their favorite teams through the TV news.
"Ultimately, football belongs to all of us and should have access to all of us," said Callahan, a Democrat from Independence whose district includes the Chiefs' Arrowhead Stadium. This policy "is an attempt to block the public from what is America's pastime."
— before the start of the next football season. It was adopted to limit media congestion on the sidelines and protect the NFLs property rights to the game video, Aiello said.
NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said Tuesday that the league would review the policy — as 1: does other policies
"We value the coverage of local stations in the promotion of the NFL, and this was by no means an
The legislation has the backing of the Missouri Broadcasters Association, which argues that the NFLs policy is both irrational and an interference with journalists' jobs.
But TV stations contend that is exactly what the policy does.
"I was perplexed by the policy quite frankly, because it's kind of a symbiotic relationship — the local broadcasters and their coverage of these games has contributed a great deal to the success that these NFL franchises have enjoyed," said broadcasters association president Don Hicks. "And then you're going to turn around and prohibit them from doing sideline coverage of the game?"
attempt to restrict or limit that coverage. 'Aiello said.'
》 INTERNATIONAL SOCCER
Italian fan violence escalates
BY ALESSANDRA RIZZO
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Italian Soccer League President Antonio Matarrese arrives at a Rome hotel for a meeting with soccer league officials on Tuesday. Italian Interior Minister Giuliano Amato awaived Tuesday to resist what he said was pressure from soccer clubs and to ensure safety in and outside stadiums.
ROME — A World Cup victory few expected. A corruption scandal that disgraced some of Italy's most famous clubs. And now, the death of a police officer during riots by Sicilian soccer fans.
Giuseppe Calzuola/ ASSOCIATED PRESS
The past year has been a tumultuous ride for Italian soccer, gripping a nation where team allegiances reflect ancient loyalties and rivalries that pit town against town. Passions have defied long attempts by the government and police to bring violence under control.
Filippo Raciti's death during clashes at the Catania-Palermo game Friday, which prompted the cancellation of the rest of the weekend's matches, has shocked a nation where soccer is part of the fabric of life.
"Let's not hide the fact that it is not only a game," said La Repubblica in a recent front-page editorial. "This game nurtured dreams. Now it provokes nightmares."
Italy has three national sports dailies that are almost entirely devoted to soccer. Most other sports typically receive little, if any, TV coverage. Day in and day out, countless radio and TV shows — from national broadcasters to small local stations — discuss in great detail team news, refereeing decisions and soccer policy.
England was long notorious as the home of the soccer hooligan, but closed circuit cameras, tougher policing and higher ticket prices have tamed stadium violence. Now Italy, France and the Netherlands are gaining notoriously for soccer violence.
Thanks to Italy's World Cup final victory over France last July, Italian soccer managed to recover from a match-fixing scandal that had greatly undermined its credibility. But Friday's violence promises to be a harder crisis to overcome.
There were calls by some politicians Tuesday for the resignation of Antonio Matarrese, the soccer league president, after he said the 38-year old policeman's slaying should not halt play.
"We are saddened, but the show must go on." Matarrese told an Italian radio station, in comments picked up by La Repubblica on Monday. "Unfortunately, deaths ... are part of this huge movement, which law enforcement officials still can't control."
He later said he had not intended to sound as though he was taking the violence lightly.
Italy's interior minister, Giuliano Amato, said Tuesday he would resist pressure from soccer clubs to reopen stadiums until he could ensure public safety. And, speaking to lawmakers in the Chamber of Deputies, he issued what sounded like a rebuke to Matarrese.
"There's no doubt that from that world pressure will come that the
show must go on, that soccer is a big deal," Amato said. "We have a duty, before our law enforcement officials and our citizens, to resist these pressures."
Authorities have arrested 34 people following the rioting, Amato said. They were not believed to be responsible for the killing of the police officer but were suspected of violence against public officials and vandalism.
Amato and his Cabinet met Monday with soccer officials and outlined tough new measures that include barring soccer fans from stadiums where security requirements are not met and barring clubs from selling blocks of tickets to visiting fans, so authorities can control who enters the stadium.
Amato said that between the start of the season in the autumn and January, the number of police officers injured at soccer matches rose from 158 to 228 over the same period last year.
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